Table 4. Delay in Treatment by hospital, sex, age, SATS category, diagnosis and outcome during the period 2013–2015.
| Gondama | Kunduz | Martissant | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Delay | Delay | Total | No Delay | Delay | Total | No Delay | Delay | Total | |||||||
| n | % | n | % | N | n | % | n | % | N | n | % | n | % | N | |
| Total | 2,870 | 63.0 | 1,689 | 37.0 | 4,559 | 37,503 | 94.9 | 2,018 | 5.1 | 39521 | 21,164 | 52.4 | 19,251 | 47.6 | 40,415 |
| Sex | |||||||||||||||
| Female | 1,249 | 61.4 | 784 | 38.6 | 2,033 | 8,928 | 96.5 | 328 | 3.5 | 9,256 | 8,659 | 49.9 | 8,681 | 50.1 | 17,340 |
| Male | 1,621 | 64.2 | 905 | 35.8 | 2,526 | 28,575 | 94.4 | 1,690 | 5.6 | 30,265 | 12,505 | 52.8 | 10,570 | 45.8 | 23,075 |
| Age Group* | |||||||||||||||
| 0 to 4 | 2,449 | 61.0 | 1,568 | 39.0 | 4,017 | 3,462 | 96.3 | 133 | 3.7 | 3,595 | 2,119 | 34.8 | 3,973 | 65.2 | 6,092 |
| 5 to 17 | 420 | 77.6 | 121 | 22.4 | 541 | 12,941 | 95.5 | 611 | 4.5 | 13,552 | 4,248 | 49.9 | 4,270 | 50.1 | 8,518 |
| 18 to 65 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | - | 1 | 20,070 | 94.3 | 1,211 | 5.7 | 21,181 | 14,193 | 57.6 | 10,438 | 42.4 | 24,631 |
| Above 65 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | 1,030 | 94.2 | 63 | 5.8 | 1,093 | 604 | 51.4 | 570 | 48.6 | 1,174 |
| SATS Category** | |||||||||||||||
| Red (Immediate) | 194 | 12.4 | 1,375 | 87.6 | 1,569 | 489 | 29.2 | 1,186 | 70.8 | 1,675 | 180 | 14.8 | 1,040 | 85.2 | 1,220 |
| Orange (<10) | 1,368 | 83.2 | 277 | 16.8 | 1,645 | 9,039 | 93.6 | 620 | 6.4 | 9,659 | 1,544 | 20.2 | 6,095 | 79.8 | 7,639 |
| Yellow (<60) | 936 | 96.6 | 33 | 3.4 | 969 | 19,442 | 99.0 | 192 | 1.0 | 19,634 | 8,103 | 41.9 | 11,252 | 58.1 | 19,355 |
| Green (<240) | 348 | 98.9 | 4 | 1.1 | 352 | 8,305 | 99.8 | 20 | 0.2 | 8,325 | 11,314 | 92.9 | 864 | 7.1 | 12,178 |
| Blue | 24 | 100.0 | 0 | - | 24 | 228 | 100.0 | 0 | - | 228 | 23 | 100.0 | 0 | - | 23 |
| Diagnosis | |||||||||||||||
| Trauma | 46 | 68.7 | 21 | 31.3 | 67 | 37,498 | 94.9 | 2,017 | 5.1 | 39,515 | 15,876 | 56.5 | 12,221 | 43.5 | 28,097 |
| Non-trauma | 2,824 | 62.9 | 1,668 | 37.1 | 4,492 | 5 | 83.3 | 1 | 16.7 | 6 | 5,288 | 42.9 | 7,030 | 57.1 | 12,318 |
| Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| Admitted | 2,161 | 58.8 | 1,516 | 41.2 | 3,642 | 3,656 | 77.4 | 1,069 | 22.6 | 4,725 | 88 | 15.0 | 497 | 85.0 | 585 |
| Died | 42 | 66.7 | 42 | 33.3 | 84 | 241 | 89.9 | 27 | 10.1 | 268 | 43 | 64.2 | 24 | 35.9 | 67 |
| Others† | 667 | 83.6 | 131 | 16.4 | 798 | 33,606 | 85.0 | 922 | 2.33 | 34,528 | 21,033 | 53.8 | 18,730 | 48.0 | 39,043 |
* Age reported in years.
** SATS Category: South African Triage Scale target time for treatment in minutes according to urgency code
† Others: cases who either referred to another facility, left the ED before consultation or were discharged home from the ED.